Glee: Learning to Fly

Have you ever fed a lover with just your hands?Closed your eyes and trust it, just trust it?Have you ever thrown a fistful of glitter in the air?Have you ever looked fear in… Continue reading →

Glee: Warts and All

At the start of “Tested” we’re given a WWII era newsreel about STD’s in which the doctor, with the help of Navy boys Artie, Blaine, Kurt and Sam, explains that, “An untreated STD… Continue reading →

Glee: Bright Lights, Big Ennui

“New New York” is such a lovely, complex episode. One of my favorite aspects of it is the way the characters’ stories connect around the two Petula Clark songs, starting with “Downtown”: When you’ve… Continue reading →

Glee: Don’t You (Forget McKinley)

[This blog is typically spoiler-free. That means I don’t divulge or really discuss specific spoilers here. However, there’s one aspect of the rest of the season’s general direction that’s already been written about… Continue reading →

Glee: The Writing on the Wall

Thanks to the lyrics of “All or Nothing,” Marley’s song from the Glee finale with the same title, I’d mostly thought of the phrase itself—all or nothing—literally. Give me everything, or give me… Continue reading →

Glee: Cool with Each Other

In my last post on So Thinky about Blaine and Sam’s friendship, “I Got This,” I focused on the ways “Naked” paralleled/reverse paralleled “Dynamic Duets”—and how both Blaine and Sam, as their own… Continue reading →

Glee: I Got This

This Glee season’s shelving most romantic relationships has allowed for such a lovely blooming of friendships (Marley and Unique! Jake and Ryder!), but the standout for me has been Blaine and Sam’s. This… Continue reading →

Glee: Sexy Teen Imbeciles

It looks like someone’s getting a younger, hotter, co-anchor! So says Rod Remington, a man who, incidentally, is neither young nor hot, at the start of Glee’s “Naked.” The newscast shares word of the… Continue reading →

Glee: Snowball Effect

Can’t you just support me? —”Big Brother” Remember this? It wasn’t that long ago that Blaine spent so much time by himself. By way of contrast, here’s some of what we saw in… Continue reading →

Glee: Words of Advice

When so many of the glee kids’ and young adults’ stories this season are about dealing with new circumstances—particularly those surrounding making it on your own (or making something of yourself or the… Continue reading →

Glee: Cheat Sheet

Now that we’ve gone through our stages of grief over “The Break Up,” we’re in a kind of limbo as we wait for the next batch of episodes (although spoilers are slowly creeping… Continue reading →